After visiting with Lucem's mother, Jacko stays with his uncle who teaches him how to live off the land. They do alright, together. Jacko wishes he could stay forever, but then the war progresses, taking the last of humanity and life on Earth.Adventures of Jacko the Conjurer is an epic fantasy series about a boy who’s been doomed to save the world for longer than he can remember. In this series of tales, follow Jacko as he struggles, once more, to commit to saving the world, but with one difference: this time will be the final and last sacrifice.Synopsis:After visiting with Lucem's mother, Jacko stays with his uncle who teaches him how to live off the land. For awhile, he's blissful because he gets to forget his troubles, until they're attacked by demons. They escape to the Garden of Hera where they discover the River Styx, and pick up a new friend along the way. With the help of Faunus, they make it to Mount Olympus, the last safe place on Earth. While he struggles with living in a war ravaged world, he learns to accept his role. The Dawn is the second part in the series, Adventures of Jacko the Conjurer.

Statistics Don't Lie is almost the perfect summertime story... almost. There's teen romance and murder. What more could anyone want?Even with the right plans and preparation, change and adaptation are necessary for the best zombie apocalypse survivor. This is the blog of a successful survivor that follows his experiences, successes and failures, as he hides away in his attic during the initial stages of the zombie plague to his eventual success in dealing with the hordes. It serves as a loose intro to other stories of the Zombie Apocalypse Survivor short stories and sketches by Jason Thornton. It is written as a first person, 'just the facts, Ma'am', account of how to handle life in the zombie apocalypse.

Witches are real, and to be blunt, they’re all black-hearted, and evil. Charged with stopping the witches, taking whatever measures necessary are the witch-hunters, all reporting to the Malleus Maleficarum Council. The best the MMC has to offer, the talented seventh-generation witch-hunting Hunter Astley has his own part to play. In his own way.Witches are real, and to be blunt, they’re all black-hearted, and evil. These are not wiccans; witches are a different breed that use magic with devastating effect. Charged with stopping the witches, taking whatever measures necessary, there are witch-hunters, all reporting to the Malleus Maleficarum Council (MMC). For hundreds of years witches have been persecuted and when the powerful Shadow Witch rises again, they have their opportunity for revenge. The best the MMC has to offer, the talented seventh-generation witch-hunting Hunter Astley has his own part to play. In his own way.

Emerin and her best friend Jalya, two naïve farm girls, must leave home for the first time and embark on an epic journey over dangerous terrain. They must restore balance to the spirit world of their land in order to save the physical world in which they live. To complete their mission, Jalya must find her missing brother and Emerin must find a part of herself that she never knew existed.Seventeen year old Emerin Gareth has always known that there is something unusual about her. Constantly plagued by headaches that compel her to wander away from home and into the surrounding mountains, Emerin is always a source of concern to her parents and her future husband. She knows that she will never be able to live the life that's expected of her in her small farming community.But a chance meeting, with a strange creature in need of help, changes Emerin’s life forever, leading her to question everything she’s ever known. She finally understands just how very different she is and how different the world is from the sheltered life she has always known.On the other side of the Riverlands lies Nebril City, a sprawling metropolis that is taking over the lands that surround it. But this growing city has a dark secret which threatens the security of everyone around it, and only a select few are able to right the wrongs that have been committed. And, at the height of the summer, the weather keeps mysteriously getting colder.Now Emerin and her best friend Jalya, two naïve farm girls, must leave home for the first time and embark on an epic journey over dangerous terrain. The world outside of their village is full of fantastic creatures, diverse communities, unexpected friends and unimaginable horrors--horrors which they have the power to stop, if only they can follow through with the quest that they have been given. They must restore balance to the spirit world of their land in order to save the physical world in which they live. To complete their mission, Jalya must find her missing brother and Emerin must find a part of herself that she never knew existed.

Separated from her people during a murderous raid by members of another tribe, a young woman finds a new home with others of the same tribe that killed her family.Prequel to A Drum Is Empty, this short story is narrated by one of the secondary characters. Kewarratiwa flees into the night while her family is slaughtered by the "tall folk." After days of wandering, with little food and water, fearful of encountering more of the hostile tribe, she is found by one of them, and discovers that they are not all the same.

A teenager sets on a journey to "learn" from the beings that reside in the Land of Spirits, a world populated with strange entities that exist on behalf the real world.Michael, a teenage boy, refused to believe in the spirit fantasies that were spreading throughout the countryside like a plague. He was then confronted by three of his friends―Trish, Robert, and Frank―all who were trying to persuade him into trying out a ritual that would enable him to connect with the spirits. Initially, he denied, but he decided to test it to show them that it was all a hoax. However, what was in for him was unfathomable. And just a minute of silence, he entered into the Land of Spirits, a world where mysterious and phenomenal entities resided. Thus began his journey to understand why he was brought here and for what.

Pastor Mike, an angel warrior, was chosen by God to protect his people from the demonic spirits battling to steal more souls. As he battles the spirits and sends them back to hell, his daughter and predecessor Missy is fighting her own battles with insecurity and finding her purpose. The demons are getter stronger. The end is approaching. Will Missy realize her purpose in time?With a nod to Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected, Baggy is the story of a boy's playful pranks and the price he must pay for his fun.

**Medal Winner of the 2014 New Apple Book Awards in the E-Book Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Category**Life or death? It's all the same for Grace...Some of us have been there before -- falling for the hot, popular jock who just so happens to be dating the hot, popular girl in school. Your snarky-but-always-right bestie insists you make a move, but you’re not so much into putting yourself out there. Then it happens, and suddenly you find yourself eating a cat on your neighbor’s porch. No? Never happened to you? Well, Grace Watkins can’t say the same. Her hunger is growing with each day that passes and her urges are getting harder to control. No one can explain why her body is changing, except one man.

In the future, the Order of the Sword is law and its soldiers are the swordsmen. This swordsman is in need of a night off as he orders a drink in a small town pub, but he's rudely interrupted and finds a few surprises that will keep him sober.In the future, the Order of the Sword is the law and its soldiers are the swordsmen. This swordsman has had a rough week. He needs one night off from work and hopes to find it when he takes a seat in a small town pub. The atmosphere is nice and the people are friendly enough. The swordsman is ready to enjoy an evening of good times and strong drink, but unfortunately, is interrupted by a few surprises that keep him sober and running for his life.

Temptation Falls moves to Rosewood with her Uncle, Aunt, and cousins following the death of her parents. Rosewood is no ordinary town, and she can see the goblins and monsters who roam the town like ghosts. Upon investigating the town's disturbing history, she captures the attention of a creature who has very specific plans for her and not only the inhabitants of Rosewood, but one day the world.The quiet town of Rosewood, Michigan has a disturbing history. For a century and a half, young women have vanished. Locals whisper of monsters residing in the old theater house and in the woods surrounding Rosewood, but no one has ever seen one.Until sixteen-year-old, Temptation Falls moves to town.Destroyed by guilt for causing a fatal accident was not the most abnormal occurrence in Temptation’s life. Revived from death by hideous creatures devoted to keeping her alive topped it off.Determined to overcome these horrific hallucinations, Temptation intends to live a normal life when she moves to Rosewood. There, she finds new friends and even starts dating the handsome Jerald Jenkins. Unfortunately, she cannot avoid the creatures forever, so when a strange man – who claims to be the King of the Rosewood creatures – develops a romantic interest in Temptation, her control over her “disability” starts to unravel. The creatures won’t leave her alone. Going against her boyfriend’s wishes, she investigates the town’s dark history and unearths a century and a half old feud between a demon – who holds a strange resemblance to her boyfriend – and the mysterious king.The line between fantasy and reality collides.There is no turning back for Temptation as she finds herself linked to a ferocious war between the Jenkins’ family and the strange creatures that saved her life. One of them is responsible for the young women who vanished, and now they both want Temptation. Positive she will die if she refuses to choose a side, Temptation wonders if her five minutes of death cost her to lose – not only her parents – but her cousins, friends, boyfriend, sanity – everything.

What if you could fix the worst parts of yourself by confronting your worst fears? Dr. Jennifer Webb has invented proprietary virtual reality technology that purports to heal psychological wounds by running clients through scenarios straight out of horror movies and nightmares. In a carefully controlled environment, with a medical cocktail running through their veins, sisters might develop a bond they’ve been missing their whole lives—while running from the bogeyman through a simulated forest. But…can real change come so easily? Esther Hoffman doubts it. Esther has spent her entire journalism career debunking pseudoscience, after phony regression therapy ruined her father’s life. She’s determined to unearth the truth about Dr. Webb’s budding company. Dr. Webb’s willing to let her, of course, for reasons of her own. What better advertisement could she get than that of a convinced skeptic? But Esther’s not the only one curious about how this technology works. Enter real-world threats just as frightening as those created in the lab. Dr. Webb and Esther are at odds, but they may also be each other’s only hope of survival.

In this thrilling adventure by bestselling author Oliver Pötzsch, thirteen-year-old Lukas has been trained as a swordsman by his father, a nobleman who was once a famed Musketeer. When the threat of war and accusations of witchcraft spread across the land, Lukas’s life is forever changed. He flees his home and vows to find his missing sister. Surviving as an outcast, Lukas encounters thieves and mercenaries, a strange astrologer, and a master swordsman. He also meets three other fencers—Giovanni, Paulus, and Jerome. Each brings a special talent to their team that leads them to the Black Musketeers, the best fighters in the army. But living with the black-armored Musketeers is nothing like they imagined. In his quest to find his sister, Lukas learns of a legendary book that holds powerful magic. As he fights to keep the Book of the Night out of the hands of his greatest enemy, Lukas discovers the secrets of his own family and what it really means to be a Musketeer.

Barbara Erskine's classic bestseller, the successor to Lady of Hay, at last available as a HarperCollins paperback. In a childless and unhappy marriage, Clare Royland is rich and beautiful – but lonely. And fueling her feelings of isolation is a strange, growing fascination with an ancestress from the distant past. Troubled by haunting inexplicable dreams that terrify – but also powerfully compel – her, Clare is forced to look back through the centuries for answers. In 1306, Scotland is at war. Isobel, Countess of Buchan, faces fear and the prospect of untimely death as the fighting surrounds her. But passionate and headstrong, her trials escalate when she is persecuted for her part in crowning Robert the Bruce, her lover. Duncairn, Isobel's home and Clare's beloved heritage, becomes a battleground for passions that span the centuries. As husband Paul's recklessness threatens their security, Clare must fight to save Duncairn, and to save herself from the powers of Isobel…

Long before Battle Royale or The Hunger Games, the author of The Planet of the Apes imagined a world governed by science and brutality gone mad in this long-neglected, dystopian sci-fi classic, now in a new translation Despairing at the state of world degeneration, a group of the world's most renowned intellectuals form the new Scientific World Government, aiming to put the world to rights. Elected into power, they quickly start making changes for the better, eliminating world hunger and cancer, encouraging scientific thought, and banning frivolous entertainment. But while congratulating themselves on a job well done, they fail to notice that actually, people are not happy. The suicide rate has sky-rocketed and, strangely, it turns out the public wants a little risk and conflict in their lives. So to cater to the masses, the Department of Psychology forms a plan: they will stage an entertainment show the likes of which the world has never seen before. It starts with gladiatorial style battles, bloodthirsty and brutal, where the victors become celebrities of unseen proportions, and quickly escalates into entire historical battle re-enactments involving chemical warfare and mass destruction. The Scientific World Government has unleashed a monster. What has the world let itself in for? 

It’s one thing to bring the woman you love back into your life. It’s another to try and keep her there. For Dex Foray, con­vinc­ing Perry Palomino to open her­self to their bur­geon­ing rela­tion­ship has been more chal­leng­ing than hunt­ing ghosts, bat­tling demons and stalk­ing Sasquatch com­bined. Add in the fact that the only way they can keep their Exper­i­ment in Ter­ror show run­ning is to take on a third part­ner in the form of the mys­te­ri­ous Max­imus Jacobs — all while inves­ti­gat­ing a sin­is­ter voodoo sect in New Orleans — and you’ve got the per­fect South­ern storm and a recipe for dis­as­ter. Luck­ily, Dex has never been one to back down, even when his life –and heart — are on the line.